May 25, 2023
QUOTE
When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that Kris Kristofferson and I were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.
--Tom T. Hall
BIRTHDAYS
1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft
1936 – Tom T. Hall, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1926 – Claude Akins, Actor
1939 – Dixie Carter, Actress and singer
1963 – Mike Myers, Actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1948 – Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader
1990 – Vic Tayback, Actor
2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, Actor, comedian, and director
2019 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite
IN ON THIS DAY
1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1925 – John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.
1977 – Star Wars is released in theaters.